REFILE-UPDATE 2-Japan regulators make list of top 60 SIFIs-media

* Nomura is highest-ranked Japanese firm, at No. 19
(Adds company comments, background)

TOKYO, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Japanese regulators have made a
list of the top 60 "too big to fail" financial institutions, with
Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) ranked at the top followed by Goldman
Sachs (GS.N) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), Japan's Mainichi
newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The list, compiled by Japan's Financial Services Agency and
the Bank of Japan, includes several Japanese institutions.

It ranks Nomura Holdings (8604.T) at 19th, Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial Group (8306.T) 24th, Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T)
36th and Daiwa Securities Group (8601.T) 48th, the paper said
without citing sources.

With tough new bank rules known as Basel III having been
finalised, investors are focusing on which firms regulators will
deem to be Systemically Important Financial Institutions, or
SIFIs.

The newspaper said the Japanese regulators had submitted
their list to the Financial Stability Board, which is expected to
decide which banks will be named as global SIFIs (G-SIFIs) by the
middle of next year, followed by discussions on what additional
requirements, including capital surcharges, would be levied on
them.

SIFIs are banks that are regarded as "too big to fail",
because their failure would cause significant disruption to the
wider financial system and economic activity.

Officials at Japan's Financial Services Agency were not
immediately available to comment on the report. Spokesmen for
Nomura and Mitsubishi UFJ declined to comment.

The Financial Stability Board, hosted by the Bank for
International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, brings together
national authorities responsible for financial stability,
regulators and central bank experts.

In November, Nomura President Kenichi Watanabe told a
conference for corporate executives that he didn't think the firm
would be deemed a SIFI because it didn't invest money from bank
deposits and ranked around 80th among global financial
institutions in terms of assets, according to two analysts and
one investor who attended the event. [ID:nTOE6AS06V]

In a recent interview, Mizuho CEO Takashi Tsukamoto said his
bank can meet additional capital requirements without raising
funds if it is deemed a G-SIFI. [ID:nTOE6BQ070]
(Reporting by Taiga Uranaka; Editing by Michael Watson and Chris
Gallagher)